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Whatever else the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal may ultimately be viewed as--grounds for impeachment, epic tabloid sideshow or the latest outbreak of puritan hysteria in the culture that gave us The Scarlet Letter--it already provides a cautionary tale about the dangers of instant intimacy. In the socially transient, lonely world of Washington, where betrayal is only a subpoena away, even between the closest confidants, and a flurry of quickies in a private bathroom can turn a couple, in Monica's words, into "sexual soul mates," fast friendship may be the ultimate danger...
...narrator grows older and more pieces of the familial puzzle fall into place, the novel starts to slowly simmer. The vignettes, always sharp and memorable even when their point is nor readily apparent, become increasingly lucid as the mystery unravels. Cavalcades of transient images fill three or four pages at a time and then vanish, but their aftereffects are less ephemeral. The constant aggregation of detail that comes with passing years explains exactly the boy's gradual understanding of his tortured familial history...
...recorded bells from around the world. Popp subscribes to the social theories of the late Gilles Deleuze and Feliz Guattari and makes his art according to their ideas of rhizomes and machines. His constructions are rhizomatic: they are perpetually in the middle, ready to be reworked, almost self-consciously transient. CDs may be scratched and rebuilt ad infinitum. Popp's work is suspiciously reminiscent of the sculptor in Italo Calvino's If On A Winter's Night, A Traveler who builds sculptures out of books, then builds new sculptures out of the books written about his sculpture...
...community has hardly survived unscathed. One need only look across Massachusetts Avenue at the hulking 14-story monstrosity that looms over the Square, or down Magazine Street at the 10-story upscale apartment building that is helping transform what was once a stable residential community into a transient housing market. We who live and work in Central Square look at these "developments" and say "Never again!" But there are those who cannot see communities and people and human needs, those who can see only money. And they look at our community and they see big profits--millions of dollars...
...these two people who had the clearest window into Tadesse's psychology did not deem it important enough to take preventative action, how could others who merely had transient and brief contact with her be expected...